(Early Modern European History to 1789 and Early American History to 1865)

Indiana Secondary Schools, 1972-1976

Education:

Ph.D., Modern European History Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Date of completion, May 10, 1987 Dissertation: "The Political Transformation of Gustave Hervé, 1871-1944"

M.A., History, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1975

B.A., History and Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1969

Teaching Interests:

Modern French History; Modern European History; Contemporary Europe; Early American History; Art History since the Romantic Era; Hitler and the Rise of the Nazis; The Holocaust; The Holocaust in Film; World War I and the Origins of Fascism; Fascist Regimes; Modern European Intellectual History; The Renaissance; European Fascism; French Revolution; Enlightenment; Europe in the Nineteenth Century; History of Political Philosophy; American Foreign Policy and International Relations; American Environmental History

2010 Phi Beta Delta named Best National Chapter and Best Midwest Regional Chapter

ONU Delegate to the CCIE (College Consortium for International Education) Summer Program in Germany, June 1-16, 2007

Research Associate to the Silberman Summer Faculty Seminar for Social Scientists at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, June 8-17, 2004, under the Direction of Christopher R. Browning, James Waller, and Jane Caplan

2002 Phi Beta Delta named Best Midwest Regional Chapter

ONU Delegate to the CCIE (College Consortium for International Education) Summer Program in Ireland, June 13-27, 1999

Research Associate at the University of California at Berkeley, Summer 1997

Research Associate at the University of California at Berkeley, 1995-1996

Sabbatical Leave Granted, Fall 2002 in Paris, Brest, and Sens, France and 1995-1996 at University of California at Berkeley, applied 2009-2010 and rejected.

Faculty Development Grant, Summer 1994 Travel costs for research in France.

Nominee for the 1994 Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Arts and Sciences

Mortar Board-Favorite Professors 1992

FLAS Title VI Fellowship, West European Studies, Indiana University, 1985-1986

Indiana University History Dept. Ph.D. Dissertation Research Fellowship, Summer 1985

Indiana University Graduate School Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship, January 1985

Bourse Chateaubriand, Ph.D. Research Grant given by the French Ministère des affaires étrangères, 1983-1984

Indiana University History Department Research Grant-in-Aid, 1982

Permanent Life Teaching License from the State of Indiana in World History and American History, 1979

Research Interests:

Research Experience Summer 2012-Reasearch and writing on the Herve biography.

2011 Sabbatical leave for Fall Semester—Travel and Research in Paris, France at the Archives Nationales.

Photodocumentation on the life of Gustave Hervé. Travel and research in mid-June 2007 in Italy related to my classes on Italian Fascism by means of visiting the important sites at Salò, elsewhere near the Lago di Garda, Forli, Predappio, Bologna, and Florence in Italy.

2006 in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine connected to classes on Nazism, Hitler, and the Holocaust; development of a video archive connected to the early life of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.

2005 July 5-August 8 Research to Bavaria, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Ukraine dealing with Hitler, the Rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust -2- 2004

July 30-August 28 Research in Bavaria and Austria developing a digital photo record of the homes, apartments, institutions, schools, and other sites and buildings associated with Hitler's early life up to 1934.

Summer 2004 Research and participation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Silberman Summer Faculty Seminar for Social Scientists.

2002 Fall Quarter, Sabbatical Leave for research in France and writing on a biography over Gustave Hervé.

October 2003, "Gustave Hervé's Transition from Socialism to National Socialism: Continuity and Ambivalence." Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 38(4), 515-538.

January 2001, "Gustave Hervé's Transition from Insurrectional Socialism to French National Socialism: Another Example of French Fascism?" published in The Journal of Contemporary History. Vol 36 (1), 5-39.

1999 Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, an abstract of "The Political Transformation of Gustave Hervé from Socialism to National Socialism and the Historiogrpahy of French Fascism."

1995 "The Disillusionment of a Revolutionary Socialist: Gustave Hervé and the Aernoult-Rousset Affair, 1909-1912"published in the 1995 Proceedings of the Western Society for French History.

2010 April 2010 “Is America Addicted to War?” Powerpoint presentation and lecture at Tiffin University Spring Conference of the NOIAC, Northwest Ohio International Affairs Conference.

2007 November 27, 2007 Northern Review, “Bush is Pushing for War on Iran, The Ice Caps are Melting…”Editorial.

March 2007 “American Exceptionalism and the Unitary Presidency of George W. Bush: The Confluence of Christian Eschatology, Neoconservatism, and Authoritarian Nationalism in the Wake of 9/11,” The Presidency of George W. Bush, Presentation at Mount Union College.

1998 April 22 Earth Day: Unpublished Essay titled "Earth First! and the Origins of Radical Environmentalism" preceding Earth Day Speaker Christopher Manes's "Prelude to Earth Day 1998: Deep Ecology and the Critique of the Anthropocentric World Views."

1998 January 21, A short essay on "American Middle East Policy and the UN/US Santions on Iraq" accompanied a presentation by Kathy Kelly, the Director of Voices in the Wilderness, who came to ONU to discuss the question "Are the UN/US-Imposed Sanctions on Iraq Contrary to American Ideals?" and to give and Multi-Media Presentation of her experiences in Iraq.

1997 April 27 "Judi Bari's Revolutionary Ecology and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Berkeley, California." An essay and outline prepared for a presentation to the Unitarian Church of Lima, Ohio.

1996 Unpublished bibliographical essay entitled "Gustave Hervé-From Socialism to National Socialism: The Structure of a Political Transformation."